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Watch the game again. See who missed tackles. It was mostly linebackers. We seemed stronger to me in 4-3, and definitely got what little pressure we got except on about 3 LB blitzes (pressures). The DB's missed some tackles, but definitely didn't attack. The linebackers we have are capable of playing better and making some better hits and tackles. Maybe the 3-4 is messing up the rhythm they finally developed at the end of last season. Of course, we miss Clowney and Quarles, but I think the LB's have to make the biggest step forward this week.

I believe this is because that is what our defense was mainly recruited and evaluated for or a variation of the 4-3 or 4-2-5.

It's not really that difficult if you have any reading comprehension skills at all.

He wants to decide tomorrow (September 3rd) if possible.

But if for some reason he can't (like say his mother is not able to talk to the coaches she wants to talk to before a decision is made) then he plans to make an decision/announcement sometime between the 4th of September (Thursday) and the 8th of September (Monday).

Easy peasy.

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It's not really that difficult if you have any reading comprehension skills at all.

He wants to decide tomorrow (September 3rd) if possible.

But if for some reason he can't (like say his mother is not able to talk to the coaches she wants to talk to before a decision is made) then he plans to make an decision/announcement sometime between the 4th of September (Thursday) and the 8th of September (Monday).

The only clown here is you. You carried water for this staff despite the very obvious recruiting miscues and now continue to defend them despite getting waxed in the first games due to the very mistakes that were painstakingly made known to you by posters here.

You can't blame the loss solely on recruiting, but to deny that anything I've said - which has been primarily that recruiting academic concerns at positions of need (DE, CB) has harmed us - is relevant to what happened last Thursday is utterly silly.

My posts and predictions speak for themselves. I take no delight in it, but the problems w/ our roster were blindingly obvious to everyone except the most deluded homer.

I do not know the insights into recruiting. That is for sure. However, I can do basic math.

With 85 scholarships, and 25 max per year, I would put up a board/spreadsheet with the idea of taking so many DLs, LBs, DBs, OLs, WRs, TEs, RBs, Ks, QBs, etc. per year. I would have a spreadsheet for each year and for the entire team. Inside of that, I would want to put things like size, speed, & other skills so that I could vary those attributes per class (i.e. smaller speedy guys on DL for faster packages, and bigger guys for run packages, etc, like we have had for the last several years). Now I realize that not every kid offered it going to accept, but by the end of the day, I would want to stay close to those numbers per year unless there is no one to fill, let's say a QB, one year. The next year we might have 2 QBs that we might target. Fill the year void of a QB with another position and strike one from there (or somewhere else) the following year.

Had we been doing this, I cannot imagine how we would be in such a position to not have big, thick guys to take up space on the DL to run a 4-3.

One other question...how many years has it been since Beamer left? Are we now seeing issues from his departure? IDK, just putting that out there. Our classes have been good to very good, but the quality of classes does not indicate any voids we may have in positional depth.

Lastly, I am 100% for this team and I believe that we will bounce back quickly. However, I do think that A&M exposed some issues personnel-wise.

Watch the game again. See who missed tackles. It was mostly linebackers. We seemed stronger to me in 4-3, and definitely got what little pressure we got except on about 3 LB blitzes (pressures). The DB's missed some tackles, but definitely didn't attack. The linebackers we have are capable of playing better and making some better hits and tackles. Maybe the 3-4 is messing up the rhythm they finally developed at the end of last season. Of course, we miss Clowney and Quarles, but I think the LB's have to make the biggest step forward this week.

That's even worse if that's the case. The linebackers were supposed to be our strength. I was in section 905 row 20. I watched the plays unfold am I'm sure it's even worse than TV. I would like to rewatch it.

2015 class will be the best one since SOS has been here....and filling needs at DE, DB and OL. I know that nobody wants to hear, wait till next year's class gets here. But remember this, the road to the top is not a straight line.

That is true if it stays anywhere near what it is now after we go 7-5 or 8-4. Only problem with that is there's a pile of new talent but mostly high school kids. You think we're going to come in and win big with high school kids? We dropped the ball in recruiting and developing a few years back and it's walked up to us and smacked us in the face. I have no doubt we have great coaches and coaching is extremely important but talent is the difference. We are outmatched big time in the SEC. That is clear and present.

That's even worse if that's the case. The linebackers were supposed to be our strength. I was in section 905 row 20. I watched the plays unfold am I'm sure it's even worse than TV. I would like to rewatch it.

The entire game is on watchespn or youtube if you didn't get to DVR it.

Just going over our list of 2015 recruits for the first time in a while. It is a nice looking class with some serious studs. Our coaches have done a great job getting commits from some top shelf talent. They will need to work their butts off to keep intact but I'm confident they'll pull it out.